Thierry Henry, Clint Dempsey and Charlie Davies discussing perception of American players in Europe
Read that a few years ago. Now, I’ve only been following football since '07 which is around the time time Dempsey made his move to Fulham. He was a thrill to watch and I’d reckon he def helped change some opinions around US players at the time with the likes of Pulisic or McKennie continuing to this day.
But just curious for a discussion, how prevalent are the stereotypes of US players today? Is it simply just banter or are there still managers who just don’t rate US players all that much.
They are not stereotypes. America is yet to produce top class footballers.
Just can’t see them producing a top, top player as other sports are too popular there. Always groan when people say “if they just focused on ___ they’d be the best in the world” when it comes to US, China etc because it’s not that simple
All the infrastructure in the world won’t make kids want to play football, there’s more money in other sports in America and importantly they have no idols like the big footballing countries. Smaller places with less infrastructure like Uruguay will produce more top talents purely because football is part of their history and culture, they have legends to look up to and a reputation too - until US somehow gets that in football they will hit a ceiling no matter how much money they invest imo
I am a USSF coach- and I can firmly say how surprised I was to see the USSF revamp their youth ways - to emulate Europe.
We no longer focus on “do 29 laps and sprint everywhere”… no more “boot it up field and hope”
It’s “how well can you manage the ball under pressure” … “how well can you as a team technically play”…
There’s a huge change. It’s just began recently and hopefully in years to come it will produce talent.
May I ask how you got started as a USSF coach?
Charlie Davies is a bellend
I wouldn’t say there is a stereotype about the players at all, apart from not producing as much talent as they probably could. If you’re good enough you’re good enough, the PL has players from all over the world.
About the fans and analysis though…
You dont know where im from dawg
Pulisic and Mckennie have done nothing to make anybody have a positive opinion on them in premier league. Aaronson as well. Robinson looks solid though. And Ream seems to have gotten good in his twilight years
He was a thrill to watch and I’d reckon he def helped change some opinions around US players at the time with the likes of Pulisic or McKennie continuing to this day.
This has to be a joke? He was one of the worst players in our team, and we were shit last year.
You would think with the American fan base there would be a bias to play Americans more. I don’t think there’s prejudice against them, they’re just not that good.
I’d say Americans are still very much not considered good technical players. With the exception maybe of Reyna at Dortmund, the best American players are very much good at elements of the game involving, pace, physicality and aggression rather than what to do with the ball at their feet
It’s all due to the lack of play time during early childhood. Street football is nonexistent here.
Ready for downvotes?
Yea we are bad, very bad. We don’t play well together, way to many back passes, horrible in front of goal, don’t put teams to the sword that we should, management and coaching is garbage, BUT we will get good at this sport, very good. Then we will dominate.
Still waiting for a really top US player. I thought we’d have seen one by now.
There’s stereotypes in the media for sure. Hard to say if there’s any active stereotypes or prejudice against US players in the management and coaching world since most people are not in it.
However, you have to think that if you’re good enough then you’ll play. Every player, regardless of nationality, has to fight for their place and the US just don’t produce world class players for the very top level.
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I don’t think anyone really judges players based on their nationalities any more.